Race Across the World's Molly reveals her dad Andrew suffered a terrifying heart attack just three years ago
Viewers had no idea about Andrew's brush with deathRace Across the World‘s Molly Clifford tonight makes the shocking revelation that her dad Andrew suffered a heart attack only three years ago.
Molly, 23, will open up about 54-year-old Andrew’s terrifying medical emergency as they race through Mongolia together.
The father and daughter duo are one of four remaining teams in the BBC competition and they are desperate to make it to the end.
Molly and Andrew will both speak about his frightening heart attack tonight and just why completing Race Across the World’s gruelling 12,000km journey is just so important to them.
Race Across the World’s Molly on Andrew’s heart attack
Race Across the World is airing a day earlier on the BBC due to a schedule shake-up, hence why it is on tonight.
In the latest episode, the teams have to travel from Ugll to Kharkhorin in Mongolia. Much of the 1,550km journey is freezing and abandoned terrain and they have to rely on paying strangers for car shares to get to their seventh checkpoint.
Andrew is in good spirits as he collects cow dung for fuel in a rickety old wheelbarrow. And it’s a welcome sight.
Junior doctor Molly tells the cameras: “It’s really important for daddy to seize this.
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“This is his opportunity to prove to himself that he can do it because, three years ago, my daddy had a heart attack. It was probably the worst day of my life.
“That really shook me and I think it really shook him. Daddy realised he wasn’t invincible.”
Andrew also opens up about his terrifying health ordeal. He admits the trauma of his heart attack has left him with bad anxiety.
“The heart attack knocked my confidence,” he admits. “Over the years it has just caused me a huge amount of stress and a huge amount of anxiety that I’ve never been able to fully get rid of.
“I said to Molly, we need to get through the elimination because I need to finish this.”
Andrew’s Race Across the World ‘full stop’
Andrew then becomes tearful, as he reveals the true significance of his Race Across the World experience.
He admits: “Mongolia has been a ‘pinch me’ moment. I’m here and I’m standing here. It’s just something that I’ve always wanted to do.
“This is my way of putting a full stop on my heart attack and the ability to say, ‘No, it’s not going to affect me anymore’. It’s going to give me positives as I make the journey through life.
“I cannot thank this whole journey enough for flipping that switch and allowing me to move on.”
Molly concludes: “He’s been given the health all clear but this is mentally the all clear.”
Next week, the teams will face their final leg of the competition. They have been travelling for eight weeks and the end is in sight.
But who has what it takes to get to the last checkpoint first and take home the £10,000 prize money?
